Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-02-18

guilty rather than make "A defense which
would dishonor the mother Of his child
rem.
Capt +. s. Lily, hero OF three wars,
Florida, Mexican and the rebellion, was
instantly killed by "a street car running
over him i'm Dayton, Ohio, the other day.
He received his Mexican pension papers
on the day of his death
A special from Butte, NJ. T., SAYS The
cattle loss in Montana, near Fort Assina-
boine, is estimated at seventy-fve per
cent. Sixty dollars is refused for ton OF
coal, and green willow poles are selling at
sl4 load Flour and oil are also scarce.
An Englishman named Elliot left Fort
Assinaboine with wagon and team for
his home at Maple Creek, Northwest Ter
ritory, twenty three days ago, and is sup
posed 20 have met death in the snow, as
he never reached his destination.
President John +. Shaw OF Columbus
Hooking Valley a. Toledo railway has sued
Stevenson Burke ct al, and the Ohio Cen
trail railway for sS.0oOOOO .alleging that
they had entered into a fraudulent combi-
nation TO possess the Hooking Valley az
Toledo and West Virginia railroads with
out any expenditure of money.
Mrs Webb was burned 10 death In the'fire
which destroyed her home, two and a half
miles south of Dunseith, Dakota.
Lorenzo Snow, the Mormon, has been
released from the Utah penitentiary in
consequence Of the United States supreme
courts decision reversing the judgment OF
the Territorial courts on the legality OF
segregatirg the offense OF unla awful cohab-
itation. The Mormons consider il a high
vindication OF their principles, and es-
corted him into Salt Lake with a four
horse drag amid much rejoicing.
The schooner Samuel Doty OF New Lon
don. Conn, was cut through by the ice at
Saybrook Point the other afternoon and
sunk. Four soamen were drowned
Later REL orts place the number of fatal
ties in the Vermont railroad disaster at
So Two persons are still missing, and it
is probable that these have also persisted
The investigation is now in progress.
Central Illinois was visited by n severe
earthquake shock early the other morning.
Light buildings were rocked, and live
stock perfectly panic-stricken by the vi
oration
Judge Barber of Cincinnati says the
spies-Van Zandt marriage is perfectly
legal.
A car load OF beer cent by Keokuk Iowa,
brewers to saloon keepers in Des Moines,
was seized 10y the authorities.
Republican senators held a meeting the
other night 10 consider the policy to be
pursued with regard TO reducing the reve-
nue., but were unable 10 arrive at any con-
clusion
Twenty families we're driven from their
homes near Beloit, Wis, by the overflow
ing OF the Turtle river. A grist mill was
also destroyed and bridges carried away.
Floods in the Rock river and Duck creek
have also done considerable damage.
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy rail
road is reported TO have leased in perpetu
ity the tracks of the Wabash road between
St Peters and st Louis, including all the
terminal facilities Of the Wabash in the
latter city.
Gen. Grants uncle, Samuel Simpson, is
dying AT his home near Bantum Clermont
county. y. V He is % years old.
Commissioner Montgomery's annual re
port of the patent Office business show:
five divisions behind 100 days or more
Applications filed last year, 4l,442 pen.
sions granted, 23915. Receipts, 81, l5+. 551
expenditures, sgg2, SOB, leaving "a balance
of sl690iS.
The Adams silk and cotton mill at Pat
terson, y. j., were burned the other night.
at loss OF 100000
Illinois and Ohio horse buyers who have
made purchases in France, Germany and
Russia, are unable TO get their stock, and
commissioners have been appointed to
protect their interests.
Rev Thomas Goodman. who preached
Abe Lincoln's fathers funeral sermon, 1,
dead at Charleston, H., aged 79.
G. o. Delamoe, farmer living near
Sioux Falls, ID. T., in fit of mental aberra.
ton administered poison to his aged moth
or and then shot himself. Both died about
the same time.
judgment Of 81, 200 has been rendered
against the Western Union telegraph com.
pany, for failure to deliver q dispatch.
The case has been appealed.
President Cleveland has respited John
Washington and Simmons, the Indians
VINO were 10 nave been hanged at w lcnlta,
Kan, on the sth inst, for committing
criminal assault in Indian Territory.
One OF the passengers who was seriously
injured in the railroad accident in New
Hampshire the other day, was c. b. Heb
bard Of Cambridge, Mass, who is accused
Of embezzlement, and was on his way to
Canada.
The extensive livery stables OF Jesse
Arnot in st. Louis, Mo, were destroyed
by fire the other night. Three firemen
we're killed by falling walls, and as many
more seriously injured. One hundred
valuable horses persisted in the flames. Tho
loss is estimated at $3.50, 900.
A crank attempted to kill Adelina Patti,
the well-known diva, during concert at
the Grand opera house in San Francisco
the other night by tho wing bomb on the
stage. The would-be assassin was the only
person injured, though not seriously, by
the premature explosion of the engine Of
destruction.
James Mcdonnell, a druggist OF Mobile,
Ala was killad nv n falling wall thu other